aley o'mara (they/them)
@omaraphd.bsky.social
So-called purveyor of handcrafted, artisanal writing.
Author of ASEXUAL MANIFESTO 2022 (Art Over Chaos).
Not an institutional spokesperson (Article 9.3 Agreement Between the State of NY & UUP)
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Author of ASEXUAL MANIFESTO 2022 (Art Over Chaos).
Not an institutional spokesperson (Article 9.3 Agreement Between the State of NY & UUP)
♠️💜 30+
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Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.
Protester is 21 yrs old. ICE agent dragged him and held his head down in his own pool of blood, mocked him about losing his eye. They fired pepper pellets at the HEAD of a witness recording the incident.
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.
Your move, @usccbofficial.bsky.social
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Your move, @usccbofficial.bsky.social
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
We do not, as a society, talk or DO enough about how much of a sensory nightmare being sick is for neurodivergent people.
Preventing respiratory infection is an access issue for so many reasons, ND sensory regulation included.
We MUST clean the air, mask, and make staying home to recover possible
Preventing respiratory infection is an access issue for so many reasons, ND sensory regulation included.
We MUST clean the air, mask, and make staying home to recover possible
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
We do not, as a society, talk or DO enough about how much of a sensory nightmare being sick is for neurodivergent people.
Preventing respiratory infection is an access issue for so many reasons, ND sensory regulation included.
We MUST clean the air, mask, and make staying home to recover possible
Preventing respiratory infection is an access issue for so many reasons, ND sensory regulation included.
We MUST clean the air, mask, and make staying home to recover possible
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The Advocate has the story - "they killed my wife," Good's spouse says. "We have a six year old in school," Good's spouse says.
Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.
Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
www.advocate.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
The Advocate has the story - "they killed my wife," Good's spouse says. "We have a six year old in school," Good's spouse says.
Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.
Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.
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STOP ADOPTING THEIR FRAMING OF BAD TRAINING. WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG FULL STOP AND TRAINING CANNOT CHANGE THAT.
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
STOP ADOPTING THEIR FRAMING OF BAD TRAINING. WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS WRONG FULL STOP AND TRAINING CANNOT CHANGE THAT.
The impact that @alokvmenon.bsky.social has had on early-modern asexuality studies continues to reverberate!
This slide is from Theo Northcraft's paper "Dis/covering Chastity: Dealing with the Revealing(s) of Britomart" at the Early Modern Asexualities symposium currently underway. #RenAsexy
This slide is from Theo Northcraft's paper "Dis/covering Chastity: Dealing with the Revealing(s) of Britomart" at the Early Modern Asexualities symposium currently underway. #RenAsexy
January 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The impact that @alokvmenon.bsky.social has had on early-modern asexuality studies continues to reverberate!
This slide is from Theo Northcraft's paper "Dis/covering Chastity: Dealing with the Revealing(s) of Britomart" at the Early Modern Asexualities symposium currently underway. #RenAsexy
This slide is from Theo Northcraft's paper "Dis/covering Chastity: Dealing with the Revealing(s) of Britomart" at the Early Modern Asexualities symposium currently underway. #RenAsexy
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It just further shows how the ace and aro experience, and the struggle against compulsory sexuality and its associates, is in fact, very, very old. In seeing our experiences in old texts, we can also see a path to ace and aro liberation.
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
It just further shows how the ace and aro experience, and the struggle against compulsory sexuality and its associates, is in fact, very, very old. In seeing our experiences in old texts, we can also see a path to ace and aro liberation.
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This conference has been a wonderful breath of fresh air for me, having been so used to the idea that asexuality and the ace experience is something "new" - it's just so amazing to see these experiences mirrored and seen in what is seen as "old".
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This conference has been a wonderful breath of fresh air for me, having been so used to the idea that asexuality and the ace experience is something "new" - it's just so amazing to see these experiences mirrored and seen in what is seen as "old".
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It's Day 2 of the Early Modern Asexualities conference at my alma mater Victoria College at U of T, and @omaraphd.bsky.social is presenting a fantastic asexual queer reading of Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle! Admission is free, online, and i's not too late to join in!
It's been a while since I've posted about asexual issues, but I wanted to make folks out there aware of a fantastic asexual studies conference at the University of Toronto, from Jan. 5-7. @medrenliza.bsky.social and Ela Przybylo are a part of it!
crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...
crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...
Early Modern Asexualities | Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
Location Victoria College, Chapel 91 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 Sponsors: Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies Centre for Comparative Literature, UTSG Centre for Renaissance and Reformati...
crrs.ca
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
It's Day 2 of the Early Modern Asexualities conference at my alma mater Victoria College at U of T, and @omaraphd.bsky.social is presenting a fantastic asexual queer reading of Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle! Admission is free, online, and i's not too late to join in!
Playing rummy just to deal something
Going birding at the local marsh, just to green-winged teal something
Playing the glocken, just to spiel something
January 1, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Playing rummy just to deal something
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People say faculty are in a bubble, but I really think there is a bubble among administrators, trustees, and their donor/business leader friends.
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
People say faculty are in a bubble, but I really think there is a bubble among administrators, trustees, and their donor/business leader friends.
Tell me about your favorite wall calendars that DON'T contain GenAI art 😭 (found a cute black cat cartoon calendar on Etsy but it's "created with the help of generative tools" 🤢)
December 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tell me about your favorite wall calendars that DON'T contain GenAI art 😭 (found a cute black cat cartoon calendar on Etsy but it's "created with the help of generative tools" 🤢)
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My first thought was this is how Israel treats Palestinians in their dungeons, if I’m perfectly honest.
Only they also bulldoze their house and kill their family on the outside for good measure.
Something, something imperial boomerang.
Only they also bulldoze their house and kill their family on the outside for good measure.
Something, something imperial boomerang.
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My first thought was this is how Israel treats Palestinians in their dungeons, if I’m perfectly honest.
Only they also bulldoze their house and kill their family on the outside for good measure.
Something, something imperial boomerang.
Only they also bulldoze their house and kill their family on the outside for good measure.
Something, something imperial boomerang.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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What are people's favorite one act plays? Bonus points for queer and trans playwrights.
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
What are people's favorite one act plays? Bonus points for queer and trans playwrights.
Someone sarcastically referred to a non-AI post as "handcrafted, artisanal writing" and I'm going to make that my whole personality.
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Someone sarcastically referred to a non-AI post as "handcrafted, artisanal writing" and I'm going to make that my whole personality.
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
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this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
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“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”
"The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine" @theintercept.com - The Anarchist Library is linked in the article
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
read here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim ‘Antifa’ uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets.”
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As projected here www.nature.com/articles/s41... we are steadily moving toward a situation where are major town or city runs out of water
There are early signs of this everywhere, right now Iran seems to be a hotspot at ~1.5ºC of heating
We are *utterly* unprepared for what comes at 1.6, 1.7 & 2ºC
There are early signs of this everywhere, right now Iran seems to be a hotspot at ~1.5ºC of heating
We are *utterly* unprepared for what comes at 1.6, 1.7 & 2ºC
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
As projected here www.nature.com/articles/s41... we are steadily moving toward a situation where are major town or city runs out of water
There are early signs of this everywhere, right now Iran seems to be a hotspot at ~1.5ºC of heating
We are *utterly* unprepared for what comes at 1.6, 1.7 & 2ºC
There are early signs of this everywhere, right now Iran seems to be a hotspot at ~1.5ºC of heating
We are *utterly* unprepared for what comes at 1.6, 1.7 & 2ºC
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...